A Russian TV journalist who bravely shared an anti-war message has escaped house arrest with her 11-year-old daughter.
Reporter Marina Ovsyannikova became famous for staging an on-air protest against Russia's war with Ukraine back in March and was put under pre-trial house arrest two months ago.
But she has now escaped and finds herself on the nation's wanted list.
The 44-year-old was warned that she faced up to 10 years in prison if she was found guilty of spreading fake news about Russia's armed forces under a law introduced earlier this year.
It's after she stood on a river embankment opposite the Kremlin in July and held up a poster calling President Vladimir Putin a murderer and his soldiers fascists, the Mail reports.
It's understood that she fled her accommodation over the weekend with her young daughter and their current whereabouts are unknown, according to state-run news outlet RT.
"Last night, my ex-wife left the place that the court assigned her for house arrest and, together with my 11-year-old daughter, fled in an unknown direction," said her ex-husband, who is a prominent producer at RT.
Ovsyannikova was born in Ukraine but gained international attention in March after she stood in front of studio cameras during a primetime evening news broadcast on Channel One with a placard that read: "No war. Stop the war. Do not believe the propaganda. They're lying to you here. Russians against war."
Earlier today, Ovsyannikova's name was added to the Russian interior ministry's online list of fugitives from justice.
Eight days after invading Ukraine, on March 4, Russia passed a law against discrediting the armed forces and the spreading of "false information".
And just 10 days after this new legislation was passed, Ovsyannikova, who spent years working for the flagship, state-owned Channel One, showed a sign denouncing the war in Ukraine during a live broadcast.
While she was spared jail and fined £210, she has since refused to stay quiet.
In July, she demonstrated alone near the Kremlin while holding a placard criticising the war in Ukraine and labelling the warmongering Russian president a "killer".
She was also detained after voicing her support for jailed Russian opposition figure Ilya Yashin.
She was fined the equivalent of hundreds of pounds for each perceived breach of the Kremlin's new law.
And in August, a judge placed her under house arrest pending a wider trial.
Last month, while sat in a courtroom, she drew a sign which read "no to mobilisation".
After her initial protest shortly after the war broke out, she was offered asylum by France but rejected it, adding that she wanted to return to Russia in order to fight for custody of her two children.
It's currently unknown how Ovsyannikova and her 11-year-old daughter escaped house arrest or where they may have fled to.
She previously said: "My son told me I've destroyed my family life... the consequences of my protest are snowballing every day."
Ovsyannikova also thinks her former partner Ivan could be acting under pressure from the Kremlin.
